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A License to free ride? Centrality, authority & ostracism in social-dilemma networks
(2014-04-24)We investigate the effects of power derived from centrality and authority on contributions in repeated social dilemma settings. Groups of five players play VCMgames on a fixed network, where there is one central player ... -
Differentiated taxation in imperfectly çompetitive markets: Evidence from the irish automobile market
(2014-05-06)Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) is an ad-valorem tax charged on the registration of all new cars in Ireland, which is differentiated according to the engine size of a car and CO2 emissions. Accounting for this type of ... -
A test for the too big to fail hypothesis for european banks during the financial crisis
(2014-11-10)Motivated by the theoretical prediction of the opportunistic behaviour of large banks that face expected public intervention, we test a fulland a partial form of the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) hypothesis. The full form of ... -
Public procurement for the formation of markets for innovation: Coordination failures and instruments
(2016-03-08)Public procurement essentially consists in the purchase of goods and/or services helping public administrations performing (better) their public services missions. Its role has evolved and it is increasingly used as an ... -
The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization
(2016-03-30)This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day. An indicator measuring the ... -
Scale Effects, Innovations and Spillovers: New Insights from Emerging Countries
(2016-03-30)There has been a concomitant rise in R&D and the rate of economic growth in emerging countries. Analyzing a panel of 31 emerging countries, we find convincing evidence of scale effects which make government policies potent ... -
An equivalence result for (Logit) QRE and Level-k
(2016-04-19)The logit QRE has comparative statics properties that are in some cases more intuitive than for the standard NE, and it explains experimental data that are consistent with intuition but are not predicted by the Nash ... -
Impact of ethical behavior on syndicated loan rates
(2016-06-27)This paper shows that borrowers’ ethical behavior leads lending banks to loosen financing conditions when setting loan rates. We advance the banking literature by stressing that the previous financing loosening is enhanced ... -
Teaching styles and achievement: student and teacher perspectives
(2017-04-05)We analyze the relationship of the teaching style with student achievement. As a novelty, we explore whether the e˙ect of the teaching style di˙ers when class work is reported by teachers or students. We find that who ... -
Freedom of Association, Social Cohesion and Welfare
(2017-04-17)How does freedom of association shape social cohesion, individual behavior and welfare, in heterogeneous populations? To answer this question, we develop a theoretical model and conduct experiments with human subjects. ... -
El análisis de impacto económico de las políticas públicas como instrumento de decisión ciudadana: Una aplicación en la política de Cuidados de Larga Duración.
(2017-07-05)Se ha recorrido un largo camino en lo referente a la contabilidad de los gastos público. Estos avances no son, sin embargo, equiparables a los registrados en el ámbito de la evaluación, y singularmente en lo referido al ... -
Selection in Unsolicited Ratings: the Case of the Sovereign Debt Market
(2017-07-07)This paper aims at contributing to the debate on whether unsolicited ratings are strategically motivated. I present evidence from the sovereign debt market that strategic motivation is not necessarily behind the patterns ... -
Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation
(2017-07-07)We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior ... -
Abstract on the conferece "A ‘Reasonable Choice’ Approach to Turnout"
(2018-04-17)The Central puzzle we seek to address is “Why does what is arguably the most plausible account of the decision to vote or not to vote, namely the rational choice model proposed by Anthony Downs (1957), apparently go so ... -
Implementation via vote delegation
(2019-03-20)For some years now, the number of political parties asking for the direct participation of citizens in the decision making process is increasing. These parties defend that citizens should be able to decide on each and every ...